WoW virus?

[asterroc]

Any WoW players here encounter this virus? I thought there were a heckofalot of you, and yet I hadn't heard anything about this happening. Was it only "released" in limited areas?

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[ayashi.livejournal.com]

I did :) it happened a long, long time ago which might be why you hadn't heard anything about it from people who play, though. This was at least a year and a half ago that it happened, I think, if not more like two years :)

It was pretty funny though, in a morbid (and often annoying) way. People would infect NPCs in-game who wouldn't necessarily die from the disease (like the flight masters), but those NPCs could spread it to players who walked nearby. So someone would infect the flight master, then poor lower level people who got on a gryphon would die in mid-air, way too far away to res via normal means (you have to walk within X feet of your body to retrieve it) and would have to "spirit res" which means your gear is going to break a lot (=more repair cost) and your stats are all reduced by a lot, making the game basically unplayable for 10 minutes until it wears off :X

Still, it was very funny to watch the videos of this wow disease spreading through cities and killing all the players!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Was there any way to know if you or someone else was infected? That would change the gameplay and choices people make.

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

I believe you could tell - I think there was this red "bleeding" animation that would appear over infected characters every few seconds.

Let me see if I can find a youtube video of it...

Here are a couple of different ones:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UA9gOcgIlsw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sAEhyHiNdrA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pxVuoOOMx0s

(I think the last one might be the best)